Lots. For a high-speed SLC (i.e. something that will equal a cheap 7200rpm spinning platter), you'll pay $400+ for a 64gb and $700+ for a 128gb at this point.
5400rpm magnetic drives are common enough in laptops to use them for a base comparison instead of 7200rpm drives.
There are situations where it may already be economically feasible to make the switch before SSD prices per GB match magnetic drives.
SSDs present two additional advantages over magnetic drives: lower power requirements and silent operation.
The added power efficiency of SSDs can mean longer battery life. So you may be able to save enough money on a lower-priced battery to make up for the higher priced drive. Most laptop magnetic drives spin at 5400 rpm also, so comparing access time by default to 7200 rpm drives isn't quite accurate.
For noise, there's no direct price tradeoff as there is for batteries; it simply comes down to how much a silent drive is worth to you, if anything. It won't be relevant if you're using internal fans that exceed the noise of any magnetic drive, but optimizing for quiet operation is becoming more common.
Please translate the negotiations into English. I just started learning a different Slavic language this summer, but unfortunately it won't help me at all with this article.
Exactly how does the power of "regulation of interstate commerce" that is explicitly mentioned as within the reach of Congress --in Article 1, no less-- not apply to, you know, the regulation of interstate commerce?
The EPA is a regulatory agency; they are part of the executive branch, the legislative branch. Article 2 explicitly grants the executive branch the power to enforce the laws created by Congress.
I believe you are misinterpreting the 10th amendment. It concerns rights, not specific topics for future legislation, such as environmental protection.
Why would Comcast's "information services" exemption from the common carrier requirements of the Telecommunications Act, T2, free it from the FCC's Sept 2005 policy statement? My understanding is that Comcast could only (successfully) argue against the validity of the policy statement itself, not that the policy statement is inapplicable to them.
So, what sort of precedent might this set for other attempts to block access? Numerous states have attempted to block access, by law, to what they deem to be illegal content. Would a ruling like this tie the hands of companies like Comcast so that they're in a "damned if you do damned if you don't" position, or would one ruling likely supercede the other?
FCC rulings do not set strict precedent in the same way that judicial rulings do. The FCC is a regulatory agency, so they are part of the executive branch, not the judicial branch. So FCC rulings are on a case-by-case basis and more flexible. If a future "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation were to arise, the outcome would not be bound to the sort of contradiction in abstract that you anticipate.
Basically, the FCC does not have to develop and follow (or explicitly reject) guiding principles from specific past rulings. Regulatory rulings almost never refer to previous regulatory rulings. This is in contrast to judicial case law, which is almost always generously peppered with references and citations to previous cases.
Regulatory decisions set no binding precedent on future, sort-of-similar situations. Past rulings can be used for guidance, but a company can always ask a regulatory agency for a letter of clarification on unclear matters as they arise.
Note that TFA doesn't describe an actual FCC ruling, just speculation on how it might come down.
Nothing about faith means believing in something absurd.
Faith requires you to believe in something without questioning it and without seeing any evidence of that thing being true or actually existing.
I find that absurd.
Faith requires you to believe in something without questioning it and without seeing any evidence of that thing being true or actually existing.
I find that absurd.
Close, but no cigar. Faith can also include something you have experienced, but cannot scientifically prove to others.
Your only evidence can be only your own experience. The nature of that experience can be something that is unprovable to others via independent repetition. Your explanation for your experience can be either true or false. You can however, question and change your belief for the explanation for your experience(s) as much as you wish. Yet one 'faith' of the scientific method is that every action can be repeated. As far as I am aware, this has not been proven.
In the interest of full disclosure, my only faith is in this idea of truth. I believe that truth, as commonly defined, can withstand any and all questions anyone can think of to ask. I also believe that that only untruths will be unable to withstand all questions.
So essentially my faith is in the existence of truth. Since I cannot prove this to you, nor have any of the many more skillful minds than my own been yet able to do so, this is also merely faith. I do not know how to question this faith, but if you can tell me how to do so, please share. It sounds as if you also have faith that all actions can be repeated.
But assuming that the differences between Gutsy and Hardy (at least in the issues addressed by this kind of guide) won't be that great, modifying this for a 2nd edition to cover Hardy will be less effort.
Generally, if you are new to unix in general, you should get a good unix reference.
Great suggestion. While Unix Power Tools is a fantastic reference book, something much narrower in scope (and much shorter) like Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 Minutes can be a great help for those absolutely new to the command line.
1. Save all music in a music folder. 2. Use a player that can handle the audio files you use. (I've been satisfied using Audacious for a while now.) Or convert DRM to non-DRM formats, using the analog hole as the last resort. 3. Use qjackctl to send the output of different players/instances to specific 5.1 channels (to direct a stereo mix to front LR, one to rear LR, and I assume they're combining the center and low frequency channel.) 4. Run a stereo cable from the appropriate soundcard output to speaker inputs in the room needed.
OR, you could shell out the $ for a this software, a "NuVo Grand Concerto or Essentia E6G multiroom audio system", and don't forget your Windows license and the licenses for your music.
TFS sets up the response by calling Sebastopol "a hippie-friendly town in Northern California", and it works.
But the town's is NOT a liberal approach; it is actually being conservative. The people don't understand, they are concerned that a technology outside of their realm of understanding may present unanticipated consequences, and so they chose to stick with the status-quo. And the tragic consequence of their lack of understanding? Their town remains unchanged.
Hoo boy, those stinkin' Cal-ee-fornia hippies. How dare they... err on the side of caution.
Our local library has copies of some of the early California Codebooks. The Code from around 1890 is a single volume of about 500 pages, just over an inch thick. The current CA Code takes about 6 FEET of shelf space!
I see your point, but it's not grown as much as your comparison implies.
I'm a California law librarian, and I can verify that those 1890 California Codes contained ONLY the codes themselves. The current six-foot shelf space of codes are annotated, and the annotations are extensive. For every sentence of the actual law, you will generally have several to dozens of pages of annotations (commentary, cross-citations, historical notes, etc.) I'd estimate that 80 to 90% of the space in the current books are annotations.
So if you were interested in reading the actual text of the law, without the commentary, you could actually do so.
On top of this, those 1890 codes made it illegal for Chinese people to vote, work, or otherwise live in the state, criminalized interracial marriages, allowed railroad barons to run wild, would throw you in prison for being gay, kept women from doing anything beyond being a housewife, teacher, or widow, and contained a whole slew of other laws that are now seen as troglodytic.
Point is, it's not as bad as you make it out to be.
"In May 2007, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tried to get the House to go into closed session to discuss earmarks in the Intelligence authorization bill. His motion failed 207-217."
So when you say
Republicans... refused to let Democrats call a secret session last year...You've got it backwards. By May 2007 Congress had a Dem majority, and that secret session was proposed by a Republican. I share your frustration, but overlooking important details of the situation can undermine an otherwise effective argument.
These guys tried a similar technique to copyright all possible phone number combinations as "compositions" http://www.magnus-opus.com/, and got about 10 billion melodies out of it. And THAT'S only using 12 notes (more precisely, the 12 two-tone chords that are each key on the dial tone, but only those 12), it doesn't account for rhythm, or more than two voices. Check it out -- the song that is your phone number has been copyrighted.
But there are a few other problems with your approach, and the summary makes the same error when it says that Tymoczko's theory describes "all possible chordal music." (I doubt Tymoczko would make this claim.)
Any system of tuning, be it standard Western 12 tones per octave, or more detailed Indian scales that include quarter tones, only uses a few of the infinite number of audible frequencies. Human ears can actually be trained to identify differences between a standard A at 440 Hz and an A at 441 Hz. If you represent those frequencies as 440.000 and 441.000, you may see my point.
Since a chord is defined as two or more simultaneous tones, the set of "all possible chordal combinations" would have to include all possible tones.
128 MIDI notes --and is based on a system of tuning, an approximation of points along the spectrum in the same way that a box of crayons is an approximation of colors within the visible spectrum.
Even for music that sticks to 12 notes per octave, in practice and reality, almost all songs are not played perfectly in tune. Bent notes, attack, mechanical reasons and other serve to make not all A's equal.
Because of time variation, both throughout a piece and in performance, a similar approach is needed for rhythm: beats per second is, like music notation, an arbitrary set of points along a spectrum. Another way of looking at it is that they are along the same spectrum: "notes" are simply frequencies too fast for us to pick up the individual beats, and beats are "notes" whose tones are too low for us to hear.
As for your system, you still need to do is allow for texture, tone, volume, not to mention standard MIDI characteristics like attack and delay. I'd be fascinated to see a system that was able to describe texture/tone in any way other than analogy (bright, muffled, woody, etc), but have yet to find one, let alone figure out how to describe it in terms of quantity.
Full disclosure: I'm a librarian, and in the course of my work often must refer to rare and antique books.
their reason for being will simply evolve
Good point, and I agree with it.
However I think the implication here is that print format is on its way to a quick obsolescence. While a number of the uses for print have been proven to be more efficient in digital media, some critical advantages of print remain.
The basic display technology (ink + paper) is self-contained and remarkably durable. There's little that would damage a book that ALSO wouldn't damage a local digital source (fire, shock, corrosion, water, etc.)
Digital formats depend on technology that is far more complex. Because of this it is still much more vulnerable. Digital file formats and physical media become outdated in a matter of years. CDs, hard drives, and memory cards may be as inaccessible as a punch card by TFA's timeline, but you'll still be able to read the print that remains on them.
Also the media itself must meet far tighter manufacturing standards to function, and the material required to create it is more limited and specific.
This will be news when physical printing begins to decline, or even plateaus, but so far digital resources have helped print manufacturing simply skyrocket.
The batting average metaphor doesn't translate directly.
For starters, these cases are appeals cases in which a written opinion was issued by a court. Most trial court rulings don't wind up getting reviewed on appeal. Most trial lawyers don't practice at the appellate level, also. However the names of attorneys are included in the text of court opinions, and if these.pdfs are indexed you will be able to find them.
Say you have a secret. Divide the secret into 3 parts and find 3 people to hold the key. Each person holds 2 parts of the key. If any one person is unavailable, the key can still be used, but no one person can use the key alone.
If you or your friend had played enough Oblivion you'd recognize the inherent weakness in this idea: one of the three can frame the other two as a vampire, claim to be a vampire hunter, safely dispatch them in the open and then possess all 3 keys.
I think you may be missing the value of the idea. Think of National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/)
It's a timed writing exercise. Don't pour all your free time, money, and most inspired creative energy into it. Try seeing what you can accomplish in a month with the idea that you'll be fine giving it away after that time. You may find some creative inspiration in exploring areas that you otherwise wouldn't.
Don't go for creating your best-album-evar. Just create what you can in a month's time. And even then, if it turns out to be too good for you to bear the thought of setting it free, you don't have to. Too wrapped up in paying studio work to give it a shot? Then consider yourself lucky, and get back to work!;)
Focusing on using speech recognition software for dictation has always seemed to me an aggravatingly limiting use for such technology. I want to use voice recognition at the command line, not as a substitute for typing a document! In that setting, 99% accuracy will be sufficient.
Even the voice recognition that was included with MS Office was accurate enough to recognize the far smaller dictionary of command terms I would need to use voice recognition as an OS interface, with accurate letter recognition and auto-complete features for navigating the file structure.
Piping terms into the shell may now be a possibility.
On a more personal note, the way you ridicule GP over a few spelling errors deserves modding down as troll. Especially since you obviously don't understand all of the involved concepts yourself.
Eh, you're right. That was lame, and I'm obviously not as informed as I'd like to think.
Apologies to the grandparent. I started to make a point --that analog recording isn't quite dead yet-- then just veered into being a inaccurate jerk.
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Firstly, as I posted elsewhere, all music recorded today is recorded digitally using either 16bit or 24bit recorders.
Oh please: that is simply not true.
16bit or 24 bit "recorders"??? Checking... yes, you said recorders. And it's a plus 4 insightful mod. Hey kids! Thanks for the reminder that slashdot is not where you go for informed pro audio discussion.
You are obviously trying to apply the experience and skills of one area (one you have) to another (which you don't.) Recording is not analogous to database design. "Digitally normalise". To the fourth digitally normal form, right? M'kay.
There is still tape being made, and there are still people whose level of investment into analog equipment is enough to get them to use it. If you ever have the chance to meet someone who insists on recording the drums on two inch tape, be polite and ask to listen to it.
Some people also weave their own cloth from fiber. Simply because you do not see it does not make something universal. Analog recording has many years to go before becoming a dead art. And many arts, still alive but not mainstream, are practiced by people who are not in the least mystified by loquatious bullshit. Don't front. Seriously
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Lots. For a high-speed SLC (i.e. something that will equal a cheap 7200rpm spinning platter), you'll pay $400+ for a 64gb and $700+ for a 128gb at this point.
5400rpm magnetic drives are common enough in laptops to use them for a base comparison instead of 7200rpm drives.
There are situations where it may already be economically feasible to make the switch before SSD prices per GB match magnetic drives.
SSDs present two additional advantages over magnetic drives: lower power requirements and silent operation.
The added power efficiency of SSDs can mean longer battery life. So you may be able to save enough money on a lower-priced battery to make up for the higher priced drive. Most laptop magnetic drives spin at 5400 rpm also, so comparing access time by default to 7200 rpm drives isn't quite accurate.
For noise, there's no direct price tradeoff as there is for batteries; it simply comes down to how much a silent drive is worth to you, if anything. It won't be relevant if you're using internal fans that exceed the noise of any magnetic drive, but optimizing for quiet operation is becoming more common.
Please translate the negotiations into English. I just started learning a different Slavic language this summer, but unfortunately it won't help me at all with this article.
As far as the password.. they fired him!
No they didn't fire him. He was placed on paid leave at the time of his arrest.
extending the power switch to a location that is both on the way and approximately a 30 seconds' walk to the terminal.
Exactly how does the power of "regulation of interstate commerce" that is explicitly mentioned as within the reach of Congress --in Article 1, no less-- not apply to, you know, the regulation of interstate commerce?
The EPA is a regulatory agency; they are part of the executive branch, the legislative branch. Article 2 explicitly grants the executive branch the power to enforce the laws created by Congress.
I believe you are misinterpreting the 10th amendment. It concerns rights, not specific topics for future legislation, such as environmental protection.
Why would Comcast's "information services" exemption from the common carrier requirements of the Telecommunications Act, T2, free it from the FCC's Sept 2005 policy statement? My understanding is that Comcast could only (successfully) argue against the validity of the policy statement itself, not that the policy statement is inapplicable to them.
So, what sort of precedent might this set for other attempts to block access? Numerous states have attempted to block access, by law, to what they deem to be illegal content. Would a ruling like this tie the hands of companies like Comcast so that they're in a "damned if you do damned if you don't" position, or would one ruling likely supercede the other?
FCC rulings do not set strict precedent in the same way that judicial rulings do. The FCC is a regulatory agency, so they are part of the executive branch, not the judicial branch. So FCC rulings are on a case-by-case basis and more flexible. If a future "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation were to arise, the outcome would not be bound to the sort of contradiction in abstract that you anticipate.
Basically, the FCC does not have to develop and follow (or explicitly reject) guiding principles from specific past rulings. Regulatory rulings almost never refer to previous regulatory rulings. This is in contrast to judicial case law, which is almost always generously peppered with references and citations to previous cases.
Regulatory decisions set no binding precedent on future, sort-of-similar situations. Past rulings can be used for guidance, but a company can always ask a regulatory agency for a letter of clarification on unclear matters as they arise.
Note that TFA doesn't describe an actual FCC ruling, just speculation on how it might come down.
Nothing about faith means believing in something absurd.
Faith requires you to believe in something without questioning it and without seeing any evidence of that thing being true or actually existing.
I find that absurd.
Faith requires you to believe in something without questioning it and without seeing any evidence of that thing being true or actually existing.
I find that absurd.
Close, but no cigar. Faith can also include something you have experienced, but cannot scientifically prove to others.
Your only evidence can be only your own experience. The nature of that experience can be something that is unprovable to others via independent repetition. Your explanation for your experience can be either true or false. You can however, question and change your belief for the explanation for your experience(s) as much as you wish. Yet one 'faith' of the scientific method is that every action can be repeated. As far as I am aware, this has not been proven.
In the interest of full disclosure, my only faith is in this idea of truth. I believe that truth, as commonly defined, can withstand any and all questions anyone can think of to ask. I also believe that that only untruths will be unable to withstand all questions.
So essentially my faith is in the existence of truth. Since I cannot prove this to you, nor have any of the many more skillful minds than my own been yet able to do so, this is also merely faith. I do not know how to question this faith, but if you can tell me how to do so, please share. It sounds as if you also have faith that all actions can be repeated.
Probably.
But assuming that the differences between Gutsy and Hardy (at least in the issues addressed by this kind of guide) won't be that great, modifying this for a 2nd edition to cover Hardy will be less effort.
Generally, if you are new to unix in general, you should get a good unix reference.
Great suggestion. While Unix Power Tools is a fantastic reference book, something much narrower in scope (and much shorter) like Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 Minutes can be a great help for those absolutely new to the command line.
This can be done much more cheaply, of course.
1. Save all music in a music folder.
2. Use a player that can handle the audio files you use. (I've been satisfied using Audacious for a while now.) Or convert DRM to non-DRM formats, using the analog hole as the last resort.
3. Use qjackctl to send the output of different players/instances to specific 5.1 channels (to direct a stereo mix to front LR, one to rear LR, and I assume they're combining the center and low frequency channel.)
4. Run a stereo cable from the appropriate soundcard output to speaker inputs in the room needed.
OR, you could shell out the $ for a this software, a "NuVo Grand Concerto or Essentia E6G multiroom audio system", and don't forget your Windows license and the licenses for your music.
Your choice.
TFS sets up the response by calling Sebastopol "a hippie-friendly town in Northern California", and it works.
But the town's is NOT a liberal approach; it is actually being conservative. The people don't understand, they are concerned that a technology outside of their realm of understanding may present unanticipated consequences, and so they chose to stick with the status-quo. And the tragic consequence of their lack of understanding? Their town remains unchanged.
Hoo boy, those stinkin' Cal-ee-fornia hippies. How dare they... err on the side of caution.
Our local library has copies of some of the early California Codebooks. The Code from around 1890 is a single volume of about 500 pages, just over an inch thick. The current CA Code takes about 6 FEET of shelf space!
I see your point, but it's not grown as much as your comparison implies.
I'm a California law librarian, and I can verify that those 1890 California Codes contained ONLY the codes themselves. The current six-foot shelf space of codes are annotated, and the annotations are extensive. For every sentence of the actual law, you will generally have several to dozens of pages of annotations (commentary, cross-citations, historical notes, etc.) I'd estimate that 80 to 90% of the space in the current books are annotations.
So if you were interested in reading the actual text of the law, without the commentary, you could actually do so.
On top of this, those 1890 codes made it illegal for Chinese people to vote, work, or otherwise live in the state, criminalized interracial marriages, allowed railroad barons to run wild, would throw you in prison for being gay, kept women from doing anything beyond being a housewife, teacher, or widow, and contained a whole slew of other laws that are now seen as troglodytic.
Point is, it's not as bad as you make it out to be.
Just FYI -- according to your article:
...You've got it backwards. By May 2007 Congress had a Dem majority, and that secret session was proposed by a Republican. I share your frustration, but overlooking important details of the situation can undermine an otherwise effective argument.
"In May 2007, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tried to get the House to go into closed session to discuss earmarks in the Intelligence authorization bill. His motion failed 207-217."
So when you say
Republicans... refused to let Democrats call a secret session last year
These guys tried a similar technique to copyright all possible phone number combinations as "compositions" http://www.magnus-opus.com/, and got about 10 billion melodies out of it. And THAT'S only using 12 notes (more precisely, the 12 two-tone chords that are each key on the dial tone, but only those 12), it doesn't account for rhythm, or more than two voices. Check it out -- the song that is your phone number has been copyrighted.
But there are a few other problems with your approach, and the summary makes the same error when it says that Tymoczko's theory describes "all possible chordal music." (I doubt Tymoczko would make this claim.)
Any system of tuning, be it standard Western 12 tones per octave, or more detailed Indian scales that include quarter tones, only uses a few of the infinite number of audible frequencies. Human ears can actually be trained to identify differences between a standard A at 440 Hz and an A at 441 Hz. If you represent those frequencies as 440.000 and 441.000, you may see my point.
Since a chord is defined as two or more simultaneous tones, the set of "all possible chordal combinations" would have to include all possible tones.
128 MIDI notes --and is based on a system of tuning, an approximation of points along the spectrum in the same way that a box of crayons is an approximation of colors within the visible spectrum.
Even for music that sticks to 12 notes per octave, in practice and reality, almost all songs are not played perfectly in tune. Bent notes, attack, mechanical reasons and other serve to make not all A's equal.
Because of time variation, both throughout a piece and in performance, a similar approach is needed for rhythm: beats per second is, like music notation, an arbitrary set of points along a spectrum. Another way of looking at it is that they are along the same spectrum: "notes" are simply frequencies too fast for us to pick up the individual beats, and beats are "notes" whose tones are too low for us to hear.
As for your system, you still need to do is allow for texture, tone, volume, not to mention standard MIDI characteristics like attack and delay. I'd be fascinated to see a system that was able to describe texture/tone in any way other than analogy (bright, muffled, woody, etc), but have yet to find one, let alone figure out how to describe it in terms of quantity.
No. PDF is bad.
J/c why you'd say this. Inefficient? Insecure?
Full disclosure: I'm a librarian, and in the course of my work often must refer to rare and antique books.
their reason for being will simply evolve
Good point, and I agree with it.
However I think the implication here is that print format is on its way to a quick obsolescence. While a number of the uses for print have been proven to be more efficient in digital media, some critical advantages of print remain.
The basic display technology (ink + paper) is self-contained and remarkably durable. There's little that would damage a book that ALSO wouldn't damage a local digital source (fire, shock, corrosion, water, etc.)
Digital formats depend on technology that is far more complex. Because of this it is still much more vulnerable. Digital file formats and physical media become outdated in a matter of years. CDs, hard drives, and memory cards may be as inaccessible as a punch card by TFA's timeline, but you'll still be able to read the print that remains on them.
Also the media itself must meet far tighter manufacturing standards to function, and the material required to create it is more limited and specific.
This will be news when physical printing begins to decline, or even plateaus, but so far digital resources have helped print manufacturing simply skyrocket.
The batting average metaphor doesn't translate directly.
.pdfs are indexed you will be able to find them.
For starters, these cases are appeals cases in which a written opinion was issued by a court. Most trial court rulings don't wind up getting reviewed on appeal. Most trial lawyers don't practice at the appellate level, also. However the names of attorneys are included in the text of court opinions, and if these
But this ain't baseball.
Say you have a secret. Divide the secret into 3 parts and find 3 people to hold the key. Each person holds 2 parts of the key. If any one person is unavailable, the key can still be used, but no one person can use the key alone.
If you or your friend had played enough Oblivion you'd recognize the inherent weakness in this idea: one of the three can frame the other two as a vampire, claim to be a vampire hunter, safely dispatch them in the open and then possess all 3 keys.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:A_Brotherhood_Betrayed
I think you may be missing the value of the idea. Think of National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/)
;)
It's a timed writing exercise. Don't pour all your free time, money, and most inspired creative energy into it. Try seeing what you can accomplish in a month with the idea that you'll be fine giving it away after that time. You may find some creative inspiration in exploring areas that you otherwise wouldn't.
Don't go for creating your best-album-evar. Just create what you can in a month's time. And even then, if it turns out to be too good for you to bear the thought of setting it free, you don't have to. Too wrapped up in paying studio work to give it a shot? Then consider yourself lucky, and get back to work!
Can you give more detail on your experience using speech recognition for commands: what app & what problems?
Focusing on using speech recognition software for dictation has always seemed to me an aggravatingly limiting use for such technology. I want to use voice recognition at the command line, not as a substitute for typing a document! In that setting, 99% accuracy will be sufficient.
Even the voice recognition that was included with MS Office was accurate enough to recognize the far smaller dictionary of command terms I would need to use voice recognition as an OS interface, with accurate letter recognition and auto-complete features for navigating the file structure.
Piping terms into the shell may now be a possibility.
On a more personal note, the way you ridicule GP over a few spelling errors deserves modding down as troll. Especially since you obviously don't understand all of the involved concepts yourself.
Eh, you're right. That was lame, and I'm obviously not as informed as I'd like to think.
Apologies to the grandparent. I started to make a point --that analog recording isn't quite dead yet-- then just veered into being a inaccurate jerk.
Firstly, as I posted elsewhere, all music recorded today is recorded digitally using either 16bit or 24bit recorders.
Oh please: that is simply not true.
16bit or 24 bit "recorders"??? Checking... yes, you said recorders. And it's a plus 4 insightful mod. Hey kids! Thanks for the reminder that slashdot is not where you go for informed pro audio discussion.
"Professional analogue recorder... accoustic peek [sic]... digitally normalise..." Hoo-boy.
You are obviously trying to apply the experience and skills of one area (one you have) to another (which you don't.) Recording is not analogous to database design. "Digitally normalise". To the fourth digitally normal form, right? M'kay.
There is still tape being made, and there are still people whose level of investment into analog equipment is enough to get them to use it. If you ever have the chance to meet someone who insists on recording the drums on two inch tape, be polite and ask to listen to it.
Some people also weave their own cloth from fiber. Simply because you do not see it does not make something universal. Analog recording has many years to go before becoming a dead art. And many arts, still alive but not mainstream, are practiced by people who are not in the least mystified by loquatious bullshit. Don't front. Seriously